Equitable Rate Design Principles to Facilitate Managed Charging

Jim Lazar spoke about rate design for electric vehicles, aimed to bolster their use as demand-side resources, at the Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management (NESCAUM) conference on transportation electrification in Providence, Rhode Island.

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